 | John Bell - English poetry - 1796 - 524 pages
...Wide sandy plains; 55 Thus in the soul while memory prevails, The solid pow'r of understanding fails5 Where beams of warm imagination play, The memory's soft figures melt away. One science only will one genius fit, fc So vast is art, so narrow human wit : Not only bounded to... | |
 | John Walker - Elocution - 1801 - 424 pages
...wide sandy plains ; Thus in the soul, while memory prevails, The solid pow'r of understanding fails } Where beams of warm imagination play, The memory's soft figures melt away. Pope, These lines have seldom any points inserted in the middle, even by the most scrupulous punctuists... | |
 | Richard Lovell Edgeworth - English poetry - 1802 - 152 pages
...effaced. We speak of warm images melting into the soul — of ideas melting away from the memory : — " Where beams of warm imagination play, The memory's soft figures melt away." POPE. . '. . ' - ' - J...M , .. "Though my tide of bloed Hath proudly flow'd in vanity till now, '... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 236 pages
...sandy plains ; 5$ Thus in the soul while memory prevails, The solid pow'r of understanding fails ; Where beams of warm imagination play, The memory's soft figures melt away. One science only will one genius fit ; 6t So vast is art, so narrow human wit : Not only bounded to... | |
 | English poetry - 1806 - 408 pages
...wide sandy plainsj Thus in the soul while memory prevails, The solid pow'r of understanding fails; Where beams of warm imagination play,. The memory's soft figures melt away. One science only will one genius fit ; So vast is art, so narrow human wit : Not only bounded to peculiar... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 334 pages
...wide sandy plains ; Thus in the soul while memory prevails, The solid power of understanding fails ; Where beams of warm imagination play, The memory's soft figures melt away. One science only will one genius fit; •So vast is art, so narrow human wit : Not only bounded to... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 328 pages
...wide sandy plains } Thus in the soul while memory prevails, The solid power of understanding fails ; Where beams of warm imagination play, The memory's soft figures melt away. One science only will one genins fit; So vast is art, so narrow human wit : Not only bounded to peculiar... | |
 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 526 pages
...wide sandy plains ; Tims in the soul while memory prevails, The solid pow'r of understanding fails ; Where beams of warm imagination play, The memory's soft figures melt away. One science only will one genins At ; So vast is art, so narrow human wit : Not only bounded to peculiar... | |
 | Percival Stockdale - Authors - 1809 - 498 pages
...wide sandy plains ; Thus, in the soul, while memory prevails, The solid power of understanding fails ; Where beams of warm imagination play, The memory's soft figures melt away. These lines are beautiful ; but they are not just ; I apprehend that they will not b.ear a close, and... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...wide sandy plains ; Thai in the soul while memory prevails, The solid jw\v'r of understanding fails ; \D I 4py( =X YyJ f $!Z @ J 5 A ˚ 2:V | ExN 8gb" )N Ooe science only will a genius fit ; So vast is art, so narrow human wit: N« only bounded to peculiar... | |
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And wisely curb'd proud man's pretending wit. As on the land while here the ocean gains, In other parts it leaves wide sandy plains ; Thus in the soul while memory prevails, The solid pow'r of understanding fails ; Where beams of warm imagination play,... 
